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Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers screening in Leeds

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AMN Action Roundup #1

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Welcome to the first Action Roundup from for Anti-Militarist Network. To have your events or actions covered either add them to Indymedia UK under the anti-militarism tag, or email us.

Iraqi Kurds demonstrate against Kurdish Government!

The Kurdish Regional Government has an agreement with the UK (and other European) Government to receive the 100's of Kurdish asylum seekers that the UK forcibly deports.
On Sunday 15th March the families of some of those people forcibly deported will demonstrate in Kurdistan to end this agreement.

Release Delshad Zorab and Grant Him Asylum Rights

Doncaster resident and Kurdish communist, Delshad Zorab, has been detained at Campsfield Detention Centre. He fears deportation to Kurdistan where his life will be threatened. He's fought all his life against dictatorship, big business and bigotry. Now he needs you support.

Sheffield activists keep up the pressure on the military

Alongside activists from No Sweat and Animal Friends, members of the newly formed Kick 'Em Off Campus network visited the Yorkshire Autumn Graduate Careers fair to let military recruiters and arms dealers know exactly how welcome they are at our university.

Kick em off Campus - New Activist Network Intro Meeting

Kick Em Off Campus | 18-09-2008 10:13 | Anti-militarism | Iraq | Sheffield

Kick em off Campus is a direct action network that struggles against army recruitment and arms manufacturers on campus.

John Pilger's keynote from a recent conference on Investigative Journalism

On Friday the 13th June 2008 The Chinese Media Centre at Westminster University held a conference into the current state of Investigative Journalism around the globe.

Here is the keynote speech from the event by veteran journalist John Pilger.

Ex-UK Army Chief in Iraq Confirms Peak Oil Motive for War

A former senior British Army official in Iraq, James Ellery, admits the link between peak oil and the Anglo-American occupation of Iraq. Currently director of British security firm and US defence contractor, AEGIS, Ellery also whitewashes the massive corruption in Iraqi reconstruction projects.

I Spy a Spy, Menwith Hill, July 4th 2008, 5-10pm

A protest will be held at Menwith Hill base on July 4th, 2008. It will run from 5pm - 10pm, including music, speeches and food. Please attend in spy evening wear!

Sheffield Activists hijack careers fair!

When anti-war activists turned up to confront Army recruiters at a Sheffield University careers fair, we weren't sure what to expect...we definitely didn't expect to be given a Barclays Bank stall to take over and flood with anti-militarist material, but that's what we got.

Smash EDO tour comes to Sheffield!

"Every bomb that is dropped, every bullet that is fired in the name of this War of Terror has to be made somewhere. And wherever that is, it can be resisted."

The Smash EDO film, "On The Verge" is being shown at 4pm on Friday the 25th April at Lecture Theatre 3 in the Arts Tower at the University of Sheffield

Troop News (Four)

Winter Soldiers, veteran's discussion of actual action in both Afghanistan and Iraq, the reality, an open letter to the Anti-war movement.Opposition by veterans in the USA grows, this is not a remake of 1971.
Thomas Paine, to miracles, to the philosophy of morality and patriotism, northllaw comments, to a guided tour of Afghanistan by Frederick Engels.

Flashback: F15 2003 - London Anti-War Demo

Photos from the 15th February 2003 No War on Iraq demo in London.

Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington on Human Rights in The War on Terror

Moazzam Begg, Guantanamo Survivor and author of Enemy Combatant, Andy Worthington Journalist and Author of Guantanamo Files, a student from the Amnesty Society and Shazia Rashid from the Stop Islamophobia Society all spoke to a public meeting titled Human Rights in The War on Terror at Sheffield University on 10th December 2007.

Look, CNN and FOXNEWS Forbid Americans to Know

Johnny America | 23-11-2007 17:32 | Iraq | Terror War | Sheffield

Look, CNN and FOXNEWS forbid Americans to know, families are
threatened with arrest for not agreeing to cause neurological
damage to their children. Will YOU make same demands by refusing
US to discuss these matters openly?, or will you side to remain
silent while my America dies undefended?

Sheffield "NO MORE WAR" day school with Craig Murray

SATURDAY 10th Nov: Sheffield StWC "NO MORE WAR" day school takes place
between 10-4pm at the Burngreave Vestry Hall, Burngreave Road and features
contributors including Mike Gonzalez on Venezuela and Latin America, Musheir
El Farra from the PSC, former ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, Chris
Nineham, from national Stop the War talking on the incresing threat to Iran
plus members of the Burma campaign for democracy. Delegates £5/£3

Anti-war play on Iraq, this Saturday, Carriageworks, Leeds

Julian Bond | 23-10-2007 19:44 | Iraq | Sheffield

Jack's Hard Rub Theatre present 'The boy who dropped an egg on the world', a contemporary political play which uses mythology and the supernatural in a morality play of good and evil.

Medialens - Iraq Body Count: “A Very Misleading Exercise”

The mainstream media are continuing to use figures provided by the website Iraq Body Count (IBC) to sell the public a number for total post-invasion deaths of Iraqis that is perhaps 5-10% of the true death toll.

As we recently reported, only a handful of media outlets covered a new ORB poll revealing that 1.2 million Iraqis had been murdered since the 2003 invasion. BBC Online provided a rare example:

“A UK-based polling agency, Opinion Research Business (ORB), said it had extrapolated the figure by asking a random sample of 1,461 Iraqi adults how many people living in their household had died as a result of the violence rather than from natural causes.

“The results lend weight to a 2006 survey of Iraqi households published by the Lancet, which suggested that about 655,000 Iraqi deaths were 'a consequence of the war'.

“However, these estimates are both far higher than the running total of reported civilian deaths maintained by the campaign group Iraq Body Count which puts the figure at between 71,000 and 78,000.” (BBC Online, ’US contractors in Iraq shootout,’ September 17, 2007;

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6998458.stm)

BBC’s Newsnight programme used IBC’s figures in the same way:

“More than a million Iraqis have been killed since the invasion in 2003, according to the British polling company ORB. The study’s likely to fuel controversy over the true, human cost of the war. It’s significantly up on the previous highest estimate of 650,000 deaths published by the Lancet last October... The independent Iraqi [sic] Body Count group puts the current total at closer to 75,000.” (Newsnight, BBC2, September 14, 2007)

These reports again raise serious issues about what IBC’s figures actually mean, how they are being used and misused to cast doubt on higher numbers, and about what IBC is doing to promote or reduce the confusion. (See our 2006 Media Alerts archive for previous analysis, beginning with:

http://www.medialens.org/alerts/06/060125_paved_with_good.php)

Anti-war play about the war in Iraq

Julian Bond | 02-10-2007 16:04 | Iraq | Sheffield

Jack's Hard Rub Theatre present 'the boy who dropped an egg on the world' a contemporary and startling play using mythology and the supernatural to look at current events and conflict in the Middle East

An old Zionist dream: the partition of Iraq

Finally the Imperial Senate calls for Iraq's partition.

Sheffield Iraq Newswire Archive

Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers screening in Leeds

AMN Action Roundup #1

Iraqi Kurds demonstrate against Kurdish Government!

Release Delshad Zorab and Grant Him Asylum Rights

Sheffield activists keep up the pressure on the military

Kick em off Campus - New Activist Network Intro Meeting

John Pilger's keynote from a recent conference on Investigative Journalism

Ex-UK Army Chief in Iraq Confirms Peak Oil Motive for War

I Spy a Spy, Menwith Hill, July 4th 2008, 5-10pm

Sheffield Activists hijack careers fair!

Smash EDO tour comes to Sheffield!

Troop News (Four)

Flashback: F15 2003 - London Anti-War Demo

Moazzam Begg and Andy Worthington on Human Rights in The War on Terror

Look, CNN and FOXNEWS Forbid Americans to Know

Sheffield "NO MORE WAR" day school with Craig Murray

Anti-war play on Iraq, this Saturday, Carriageworks, Leeds

Medialens - Iraq Body Count: “A Very Misleading Exercise”

Anti-war play about the war in Iraq

An old Zionist dream: the partition of Iraq

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